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Statement

2.1.43∗. The horizontal axis of radius , which rotates at an angular velocity , is compressed by a sleeve equipped with a counterweight so that it does not rotate when moving along the axis. Determine the steady-state velocity of the bushing under the action of a force applied to it along the axis. Maximum friction force of the axle against the bushing .

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Solution

The shaft ( radius R) spins with angular velocity , but the sleeve (bushing) is prevented from rotating by the counterweight. So at the contact surface between shaft and sleeve there is relative sliding made of two perpendicular components:

  1. a circumferential component, from the shaft's rotation:
  2. an axial component, from the sleeve's motion along the shaft: ( the steady-state velocity we want )

Since these two velocity components are mutually perpendicular ( one is along the surface's circumference, the othe along the axis), the resultant relative sliding speed is:

Kinetic friction always acts opposite to the relative sliding velocity at the contact, and its magnitutde equals the maximum friction force (given). So the friction force vector has magnitude , directed opposite to .

The axial component of this friction force (the part that resists the applied force ) is the projection of along the axis:


(this follows just from similar triangles: the axial component of friction is to as to )

"Steady-state" means the bushing moves with constant velocity, so the net exial force is zero: the applied force is exactly balanced by the avial component of friction:

Now solve for :

Square both sides:


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